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	# 2018-09-12 - Why We Are Here

	Liberation by Jan Betts

	for the World Trade Organization Summit, Seattle 1999

	Because the world we had imagined, the one we had always counted on,
	is disappearing.
	Because the sun has become cancerous and the planet is getting hotter.
	Because children are starving in the shadows of yachts and economic
	summits.
	Because there are already too many planes in the sky.

	This is the manufactured world you have come to codify and expedite.
	We have come to tell you there is something else we want to buy.

	What we want, money no longer recognizes, like the vitality of nature,
	the integrity of work.
	We don't want cheaper wood, we want living trees.
	We don't want engineered fruit, we want to see and smell the food
	growing in our own neighborhoods.

	We are here because a voice inside us, a memory in our blood, tells us
	you are not just a trade body, you are the blind tip of a dark wave
	which has forgotten its source.
	We are here to defend and honor what is real, natural, human, and
	basic, against this rising tide of greed.

	We are here by the insistence of spirit and the authority of nature.
	If you doubt for one minute the power of truth or the primacy of
	nature, try not breathing for that length of time.

	Now you know the pressure of our desire.
	We are not here to tinker with your laws.
	We are not here to change you from the inside out.
	This is not a political protest.
	It is an uprising of the soul.

	--Anonymous

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